Storage battery.



BEST AVAILABLE COPY A. H. SNYDERKL J. STARKENSTEIT' STORAGE BATTERY.

APPLICATION FILED AUG. 28, 1912.

1,080,852. Patented Dec. 9, 1913.

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A. H. SNYDER & J. STARKENSTEIN. STORAGE BATTERY.

APPLICATION PILED' AUG. 28, 1912.

Patented Dec. 9, 1913.

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ATTORNEYS iizrun s ra rus Parana @FFICE.

ALMOND H. SNYDER, OF LANCASTER, AND JOSEPH STARKENSTEIN, OF NEW YORK,

To all whom it may concern: Be it known that we, ALMOND H. SNYDER, 1 acitizen of the United States, and a resident of Lancaster, county ofErie, and State of New York, and Josnrn S'mmmxsram, a citizen of theUnited States, and a resident of New York city, borough of the Bronx, inthe county and State of New York, have invented a certain new and use-IO ful Improvement in Storage Batteries, of

l Which the following is a specification.

1 Our invention relates to storage batteries Land more particularly toapparatus forlifting a storage battery as a unit or for lifting thebattery plates out of the jar. One of theobjects of the invention is toprovide a simple and durable apparatus that may be readily applied tobattery jars for lifting them.

29 Another object of the invention is to pro- 'vide lifting apparatuswhich may be readily applied to the battery jar to lift it, or which mayreadily be attached to the terminals of 'jthe plates orto the terminalsof a certain number of the plates, so that the plates may be liftedtogether out of the jar. In the preferred form of our invention, weprovide means whereby the plates may be lifted without disturbing theirrelative operative positions. k

. Our invention will be more readily understood and further objects ofthe invention will more fully appear from the following descriptiontaken in connection with the accompanying drawings forming a part ofthis specification and in which i Figure 1 shows a side view of astorage battery equipped with a lifting device em- 1 bodying one form ofour invcnlioiTfdFlifting the entire ccrtainparls beingbrohenaway andothers shown in section; Fig. 2 shows a side view of said'jar, withcertain Q-parts broken away'and others in section,

having the lifting device secured to the terminals of the battery forlifting the plates Specification of Letters Patent.

font of the jar; Fig. 3 shows a. top viewof f a jar having two positiveand two negative terminals, with the biting device secured to tain partsof the cover being broken away; Fig. 4 shows a pers 'iective view of awith the lifting device attached thereto; 1 Fig. 5 shows a detail: andFig. 6 shows a.

modification of the liftin device.

Referring to the drze-.-:ings, i a battery a pair of terminals ofopposite polarity, cer

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jar, preferably made of hard rubber or similar suitable insulatingmaterial, having a series of positive plates 3 and ascries of negativeplates l suitably supported and spaced in the jar, all or a suitablenumber of the positive plates 3 being burned to the base of a threadedterminal The negative plates, or any desired number of them, aresimilarly connected to the threaded terminal. 5. Each plate at its endaway from its terminal, is provided with a hooked portion or overhangingflange (5 extending above and overhanging the top edges of the plates ofoppositepolarity, the construction being such that a groove or passage 7is formed between the lower edge of the flanges l3 and the edge of theplates of opposite poralily, the groove extending across the plates.These grooves, one at each end of the plates, are adapted to receive alocking piece or key 8, preferably made of fiber or other stronginsulating material, for the purpose of holding the otherwiseunsupported ends of the plates from sagging when being lifted,

and thus avoiding any shearing strains on the terminals or theconnections of the ter-' minals to the plates. The locking pieces alsoenable the plates to be lifted out of the jar withoutdisarranging theirrelative positions, so that they may be lifted and replaced without anyreadjustment.

The particular form of battery shown is provided with a suitable cover 9which is sealed on the jar by means of a suitable cementing compound 10,but it will be understood that the invention is equally applicable tonnci'ivered batteries.

in order not to crush the edges of the jar in lifting the jar :{S a\vlmle, a rigid piece ll, preferably in the form of a bar, is placedacross the top f the jar with its ends projecting over the side of thejar; The bar, in the preferred form of our invention, is made of woodand is provided with openings 12 through which the threaded terminals 5,5 project. They extremities of the bar are provided with suitablen'ioans such as metal caps 13 with sockets 13' for securing the ends ofa sling 14. Since the jars are usually made of glass or hard rubber,which cannot be safely ubiecierl to rough handling or uneven s1- weundue the sling in th form of a flat and, preferably of sheet metal, thehand being provided at its ends with reinfm eed p r our. if) by means ofwhich the band is secured to the extremities of the bar. In the presentform of the invention, we have shown the ends of the slin or flexiblesheet metal band curved bac upon itself to make the enlar ed orreinforced portion 15 cylindrical in orm so that it may be slippedlaterally into the socket .13. The bar 11 may be provided with anysuitable hook 16 or other device by means of Which a chain or rope, maybe attached to the bar. If desired, t e bar may be made of metal, asshown in Fig. 6, and provided with insulating bushings 18 fitting theterminal openings, and with hooks 19 which are adapted to engage ineyelets 20 formed in the metal band.

If it is desired the terminal nuts the bar is slipped over the terminalswhich project through the holes 12, in the bar until the bar rests uponthe upper edge of the jar. The sling is then slipped under the. jar andthe reinforced end portions are slipped into the sockets 13 or othersecuring means, whereupon a suitable rope or chain is made fast to thehook l6 and the jar is ready to be lifted. After lifting the jar out ofposition,- or before lifting it out of position, if it is desired tolift the plates out of the jar or any number of them connected to theterminals 5, 5, the sling is dispensed with and the terminal nuts 17, 17screwed down over the terminals, so as to hold the bar from being liftedoff. The locking pieces or keys 8 are then placed in the grooves 7 andthe plates are now ready to be lifted by connectin a suitable rope orchain into the hook 16. plates 3 which are connected to the terminal 5will support the adjacent ends of the negative plates 4 which are hookedover the key or lockin piece 8, and likewise the terminal ends 0 thenegative plates 4 will support the adjacent ends of the positive plates3 which are hooked over the locking piece 8 at that end; so that as thebar is lifted the plates will be prevented from saggin own at theirotherwise unsupported en s, and will be properly spaced and in theirrelative operative positions so that they may be readily replaced in thejar without rearrangement.

While we have shown and described thebest form of our invention nowknown to us, it will be obvious to those skilled in the art that variousmodifications and changes may be made in the SflIIlB -fifld that certainfeatures of the invention may be utilized without other of the features,without ideparting from the scope or spirit of our invention, and we donot Wish tobe understood as limiting ourselves other than as indicatedin the appended claims.

Having thus described our invention,

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to lift the jar as awhole, 17, 17 are removed and a .nals from theplates,

e ends of the positive 1&1 and which the terminals project, means forrea a what we claim as new and desire to secure 1. The combination witha tery jar, battery lates and terminals extending up there m, of a rigidbar extending across the top of the jar and provided with openin forreceiving the terminals from the p ates, means for detachsecuring thebar to the terminals, and

storage bata l a dlstachable sling extendin from the ends of the bararound beneath t e jar, whereby the plates may be lifted out of the jaror whole {ar lifted, depending upon whether the s ing is secured to thecross bar.

2. The combination with a storage battery jar, batter ,plates andterminals extending up there rom,of a rigid bar extend' across the topof the jar and provided w i i openings for reoeivi the terminals fromthe plates, a flexible and extendin from the ends of the bar aroundbeneath t and means for detachably securing the ends of the band to theextremities of the bar.

3. The combination with a storage battery jar, battery plates andterminals ex tending up therefrom, of a rigid bar extending across thetop of the jar and provided with openings for receiving the termiaflexible metallic band extending from the ends of the bar around beneaththe jar, the band being provided with enlarged ortions, and means at theextremities of t e bar for detachably securing the enlarged ends of theband thereto.

4. The combination of a storage: battery jar, a series of negative andpositive plates respectively connected to common terminals,

a rigid bar extending across the top of the provided with openingsthrough movably securing the bar on the terminals,

and adetachable sling extending from the,

ends of the bar around beneath the jar.

5. The combination of a storage battery jar, a series of negative andpositive plates respectively connected to common terminals, a rigid barextending acrossthe top of the jar and provided with openings throughwhich the terminals project, means for removabl securing the bar on theterminals, a detac able slin extendin from the ends of the bar arounbeneath t e jar, the ends ofThe sling bein reinforced, and means at theextremities o the bar for detachably securing the reinforced ends of thesling thereto.

6. The combination of a storage battery jar, a seriesof negative andpositive plates respectively connected to common terminals, theterminals having threaded extensio a rigid bar extending across the topof the jar and provided with openings through which the threadedterminals project, nuts threaded on the terminals for removably e jar,

which they are connected at one end, a com- .mon terminal for the saidnegative plates .to which they are connected at their ends opposite thepositive terminal, and means for preventing the ends of the negative andpositive plates opposite their terminals from sagging when being liftedfrom the jar by their termlnals, said. means comprising transversegrooves in the respective positive and negative plates with a key foreach groove engaging the respective negative and positive, plates tolock each set of plates from sagging when being lifted from the jar bytheir terminals.

8. The combination of a storage battery jar, a plurality of positiveplates and a plurality of negative plates therein, a common terminal forthe said. positive plates to which they are connected atone end, acommonterminal for the said negative plates to which they are connected attheir ends opposite the positive terminal, means adapt-' ed to bedetachably secured .to the terminals for simultaneousl lifting the saidpositive and negative p atessecured to said terminals, and means forpreventing the ends of the said negative and positive plates oppositetheir terminals from sagging when top edges of near their ends oppositetheir respective being lifted from the jar, prising transverse groovesformed. in the the positive and negative plates terminals, the grooveshaving openings through which a key may be slipped laterally therein, inthe grooves the plates are to be lifted from the ar.

9. The combination with a' storage battery jar having negative andpositive plates therein and terminals extending up therefrom, of a rigidmetal bar extending across the top of the jar and'provided with openingsfor receiving the terminals from the plates, short circuiting of thebattery through the bar, a flexible band extending from the ends of thebar around beneath the jar, and means for detachably securi n the endsof the band to the extremities of t 1e bar.

In testimony whereof, we have signed our names to this specification, inthe presence of two subscribing witnesses.

ALMOND H. SNYDER.

Witnesses:

L. METZEN, P. W. ENGLISH.

JOSEPH STARKENSTEIN.

Witnesses:

' HUGO Pn'mn,

O. B. PETERSON.

insulating bushings for preventing said means comand keys adapted to beplaced through said openings when

